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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Petrarch

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

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